Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-10
THE GREAT FOREPAUGH
And His Immense Show on the Old Fai
Grounds, Yesterday.

And His Immense Show on the Old Fair
Grounds, Yesterday.
Early yesterday morning strangers from
far and near, from town, country and vii
lagc, began arriving in the cilY, on horse
back, in vehicles and astridc shank's mare,
attracted by the Great Forcpaugh SHOW.
They slid down off the hills and came mp
out of the valleys, until the city was full
and so were many of the male visitors,
and they got fuller az the day advanced,
many of them being unable to see more
than the parade. The maidens from the
"rOOral DISTRICTS" came in bedccked with
varie-cOlored ribbons and summer drcss' 5.
The city people turned out too,
and the streets i'll the upper part OF the
city were lined with humanity
of ali styles and sizes, while
every available window along the route 70
procession was occupied by eager faces
waiting for the show. The fact that the
parade was announced to 60 down only Us
far as Sixteenth street had great deal to
! do with the immensely of the crowd up
town, while the fine weather was princi-
pally responsible for the general big turn
out
The grand street pageant was announced
to start precisely ut 10 o'clock and it did.
shortly after that hour the head of the pro-
cessiOn appeared coming over the suspension
bridge and the irrepressiblc small boy be
gan yelling, "Here she comes" and the
mass of surging humanity in the vicinity
of the bridge corner pushed forward until
they were wedged in like sardines. The
display was quite large and elegant. CON
Sisting of ChariOts animal cages,
horses, racing chariots, clowns, hand
Somely cOstumed ladies and gentlemen,
elephants, &c, &c, followed by the wild
west exhibition, among which was noticed
COW boy band on horseback, scouts, In
dams, frontiersmen, emigrant wagon, and
other accessories to such an attraction.
There were several brass bands, and the
gorgeous pageant ended with a caliOpc from
which all the latest popular airs were eX-
tracted. The parade went over the r0ute
laid out and returned to the grounds. Then
the crowd scattered IN all directions and
the soda water fountains, ice CrcHm saloons,
and beer saloons did rushing business
until noon.
At2 o'clock the streets were pretty well
deserted and the immense canvas tents
under which the great Forepaugh show is
exhibited, had swallowed up at least 5000
human souls, the usual proportion OF
which had only gone to see the side show
curiosities and animals, but in some mex.
plicable way had been forced into the
great four centre pOled circus tent. But
to speak Of the menagrie.
The collection of animals was not so
large rs il was rare and fine, all being in
the most superb condition. Noticeable
among them were beautiful, delicately
spotted giraffe, several large sea lions, an
immense hippOpotamus, n beautifully
striped zebra and a number OF cages OF
grand majestic looking lions AID their
mates, while the display Of tigers was I'M
usually fine.
The crcus performance was unusually
good and the music superb. The pro
gramme opened with the grand entree Of
White and Black Knights, there being the
usual two rings and elevated stage. The
principal and best features of the perform
| ance were the Wild West and the shooting
OF Bogardus and his sons, the bareback rid
Ing of Misses Daisy Belmont and Julia
I.owandO, and Robert Stickney and VIM.
| Showles, Juan Caicedos slack wire act.
! Fred Watson's somersault dog Jack, Mile.
! TournOur balancing trapeze. The Donald
son Bros, in their cOntOrtion act, were
never equalled in Wheeling The
! boxing elephant, John L. Sullivan, intro
duced by II. Thompson was about the
most amusing and most wonderful per-
Torrance on the programme, outside OF the
| herd Of performing elephants, trained by
! Mr.. Adam FOrepaugh, Jr. This
performance excels any ever
attempted with elephants. The juggling,
trapese performing, tumbling, bicycle rid
ing and everything, in fact, were in the
hands of first-class artists. The Custer
battle. the attack on the stage coach by In
dians and the rescue by COW boys and all
that part of the entertainment was very
exciting.
The long and excellent programme was
ended with a series of grand hippOdrome
races which were both interesting and ex-
citing. The last act was the driving OF
thirty horses by Mr.. Adam Forepaugh, Ir.,
the animals representing some fifteen or
twenty thousand dollars. The concert
and side show attractions were all first
class
The attendance last evening, while not
as large as the afternoon, was very good.
The big show went west over the b. & o.
at an early hour this morning.